1st Tip: Whatever your intelligence, your level of education, your level of information, the selection you make, there are only 10% of innovations that are pure wonders, 50% will be fiasco, and remains half-hearted successes. Do not waste too much time selecting, unless you abandon “bad” projects. Finally, it is probable that the one who is in the 10% of the pure wonders have been rejected by everyone!

2nd tip: do not put all your eggs in the same basket! Never forget that financial security is a zero more than your current bank account. So be reasonable! You will spend anyway more than you expected. No free cash, no investment! Stay humble!

Tip 3: Know your behavior in the face of failure. If you do not admit it, then do not invest because you will have too much stress. If you pillorise your poor innovator, already that the paradigm shift of an innovation is effortless and stressful, if you overwhelm it with all the defects of the earth, it will be a failure. Encourage your innovator, and know that he will need you because he will have underestimated his budget and that the development of his innovation will be more expensive than expected. Do not need the money you invested!

4th tip: Experts are wrong, but as in Milgram’s experience, they have white blouses, and so they are supposed to know, but they do not know and they charge it very dear! Listen to them a bit, but not too much!

5th tip: investment is not a long quiet river. Either way, there will be problems, even if you are the best of the best. If you can not stand stress, do not invest. On the other hand, do your best, choosing projects that correspond to your values and that will make you grow, with or without accompanying the innovator. Playing small does not serve the world. Be a little crazy!